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Museums Celebrate America's Freedoms:
Joining Communities in a Day of Remembrance
Complete List of participants
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
Harrogate, Tenn.
Description of Activity
The Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum plans a Day
of Remembrance featuring patriotic music; dramatic
readings of Lincoln's words on nation, freedom, and
Union; and a color guard (ROTC or National Guard).
Adams Museum & House
Deadwood, S.D.
Description of Activity
The Adams Museum & House will offer free admission
to both museums on Sept. 11, 2002. Guests will be encouraged
to express their thoughts about our freedoms by writing
on strips of white cotton. Those strips will be woven
into a U.S. flag, after they are dyed with cocheneal
for the red stripes, and indigo for the blue. Fiber
artist Grete Bodogaard, a native of Norway who has
resided in this country for over 20 years, will bring
her loom into the museum. "Yesterday's Tommorows: Past
Visions of the American Future," a traveling exhibit
of the Smithsonian Institution, will also be on display.
Contact: marketer@adamsmuseumandhouse.org,
(605) 578-1928
Web address: http://www.adamsmuseumandhouse.org/
The Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site - The National
Museum of the Pacific War
Fredericksburg, Tex.
Description of Activity
The Admiral Nimitz State Historic Site - The National
Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Tex.,
together with the City of Fredericksburg is offering
a concert for the greater community. The event is scheduled
for the city's Market Square at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday,
Sept. 11. It is a celebration of the American Spirit.
Sentimental Journey Orchestra will perform and the
invocation will be given by a chaplain who was at Ground
Zero on Sept. 11, 2001.
Airpower Museum
Midland, Tex.
Description of Activity
The American Airpower Heritage Museum (AAHM) will remember
Sept. 11 with free admission on Sept. 11, 2002, and
a special exhibit throughout the month.
The AAHM will display original prints of Norman Rockwell's "Four
Freedoms" series in the museum lobby for the month
of September. The "Four Freedoms" paintings were inspired
by President Roosevelt's speech to Congress on Jan.
6, 1941, one year prior to the surprise attack on Pearl
Harbor. The paintings honor the Freedom from Want,
the Freedom from Fear, the Freedom of Speech, and the
Freedom to Worship. These stunning 2' X 3' WWII-era
prints are amazingly realistic portraits of courageous
Americans during uncertain times<—>a time when
such freedoms illustrated by Rockwell's " Four Freedoms" series
were threatened.
Web address: http://www.airpowermuseum.org/
Allentown Art Museum
Allentown, Pa.
Description of Activity
The Allentown Art Museum will feature "Americans by
Choice: Photographs of Arab Americans in New York" by
Mel Rosenthal from Aug. 4 through Oct. 27, 2002, in
the Museum's Payne Hurd Gallery. Scheduled to coincide
with the anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, the photographs
in this exhibition rekindle the sense of unity all
Americans felt that day. Nationally acclaimed photographer
Mel Rosenthal was engaged by the Museum of the City
of New York in 1998 to portray the history and vibrancy
of the Arab-American community in the city. Four years
later, these 20 photographs selected from that project
display the diversity and subtlety found within this
group by examining their professional paths, religious
beliefs, and home lives. The images show new Americans
honoring their native traditions while immersing themselves
in American culture. The installation culminates with
Arab-American reactions to the Sept. 11 destruction
of the World Trade Center. The photographs suggest
that, while many died on that tragic day, many others
reaffirmed their allegiance to the United States. In
support of the national initiative, Museums Celebrate
America's Freedoms: Joining Communities in a Day of
Remembrance, the museum will offer free admission on
Sept. 11, 2002. All visitors are invited to join museum
Director David Brigham and Allentown Art Museum staff
and volunteers as we mark the one-year anniversary
of 9/11 by attending the city's ceremony, Patriot Day:
Commemorating 9/11. Please gather in the museum's foyer
at 11:45 a.m. to walk to the ceremony.
Web address: http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/
Allison-Antrim Museum
Greencastle, Pa.
Description of Activity
Not provided
The American Labor Museum/Botto House National
Landmark
Haledon, N.J.
Description of Activity
The American Labor Museum/Botto House National Landmark
will honor America's heroes. The 11th Annual Labor
Day Parade, co-sponsored by the American Labor Museum/Botto
House National Landmark, Borough of Haledon, and City
of Paterson, will pay tribute to all fire fighters,
police officers, and emergency rescue workers. The
parade, scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 1, 2002, will step-off
at the American Labor Museum in Haledon at 1:30 p.m.
and finish at the Great Falls in Paterson. This year's
theme, A Tribute to America's Heroes, recognizes those
workers who risk their lives on a daily basis to help
their fellow human beings.
Web address: http://community.nj.com/cc/labormuseum
American Museum of Natural History
New York, N.Y.
Description of Activity
In the year since Sept. 11, 2001, the American Museum
of Natural History has continued to fulfill a mission
to provide intellectual and spiritual nourishment,
and has endeavored to reaffirm the human capacity
for good and to replenish the human spirit. Our longstanding
efforts to enhance public understanding of world
cultures and the natural world have never been more
important.
In memory of the lives lost and in honor of the
heroes of 9/11, on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, the
American Museum of Natural History, along with the
Rose Center for Earth and Space, will open its doors
to the public for free, providing a place of enrichment
and community for all New Yorkers and visitors to
our city. In the Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, directly
inside the museum’s main entrance, an American flag
recovered from the debris at the World Trade Center
site by members of the New York City Police Department
will be displayed. This extraordinary flag, damaged
but intact, traveled into space aboard NASA’s Space
Shuttle Endeavour as a tribute to the victims
and heroes of Sept. 11. The flag will be on display
at the museum through December.
American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, N.Y.
Description of Activity
To observe the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attack on
the World Trade Center, the American Museum of the
Moving Image will present a screening series, "Attack
and Aftermath: Documenting September 11." Four documentaries
will be shown during the series. The following screenings
will take place the weekend of Sept. 7 and 8: Circling
Zero: We See Absence (by Ken Jacobs); In Memoriam:
New York City, 9/11 (HBO); and Seven Days in
September (by Steve Rosenbaum). WTC Uncut (by
Bryan Kortis and Steven Mudrick) will play on Wednesday,
Sept. 11. Admission to the museum is free on Sept.
11.
Web address: http://www.ammi.org/
American Red Cross Visitors Center
Washington, D.C.
Description of Activity
We are hosting an exhibit that features the work of
American Red Cross staff photographers who were on
the scene at the disasters sites in New York, Pennsylvania,
and at the Pentagon. They are displayed along with
selections from renowned photographer Richard Avedon's "Courageous
Americans" series. As a key participant in the relief
efforts following the events of Sept. 11, 2001, the
American Red Cross has an inspiring story to tell visitors.
Almost 55,000 Red Cross volunteers from across the
country provided services during the relief efforts
following the tragedy.
Contact: Thomas B. Goehner, Director
of Museum Education goehnert@usa.redcross.org,
(202) 639-3038
Date(s): Exhibit opens Sept. 11, 2002;
will remain on display indefinitely
Web address: http://www.redcross.org/museum/
American Textile History Museum
Lowell, Mass.
Description of Activity
The City of Lowell and the American Textile History
Museum will host the U.S. Department of Defense's Pentagon
Quilts, a collection of quilts given spontaneously
as gifts to the Pentagon in the aftermath of Sept.
11. Twenty-nine quilts will be on display at the museum
from Sept. 2-13 as part of a series of events to commemorate
the one-year anniversity of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks.
Plans are now underway for a city-wide Sept. 11 memorial
observance that will include a special program at noon
at the museum, and the city's 6:30 p.m. commemorative
parade.
Aperture's Burden Gallery
New York, N.Y.
Description of Activity
In memory of those who lost their lives in the tragedy
of Sept. 11, Aperture's Burden Gallery presents the
world premiere of master photographer Eugene Richards's
new work, "Stepping Through the Ashes." Driven by Richards's
deeply personal and singular vision, "Stepping Through
the Ashes" is a photographic elegy to those lost, and
a portrait of how people are coping and feeling in
the wake of the tragedy. Like all Americans, Richards
felt a profound sense of loss gazing upon Ground Zero.
What city officials labeled a crime scene, he saw as
an "ever-evolving repository for the missing, a focal
point for grieving, for remembering, for reflection,
for self-examination." "Stepping Through the Ashes" offers
a way of considering, of beginning to cope with the
tragedy. It's about violence against innocents, the
loss of beauty that comes with such violence, and the
sudden loss of family relationships.
Web address: http://www.aperture.org/
Arcadia Historical Museum
Arcadia, Calif.
Description of Activity
Arcadia Historical Museum has invited its community
to contribute to a Day of Remembrance by visiting the
museum and posting their thoughts, memories, and impressions
of Sept. 11, 2001, on a forum board that will be on
display beginning Sept.11, 2002. The museum is open
Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.
Another exhibit involves a special project coordinated
by Girl Scout Tiffany Tseng, consisting of portraits
of Arcadians, with a quotation from each person stating “What
It Means To Me To Be An American." A selection of
the photographs, framed with the quotations, will
be on display in the gallery. All of the photographs
and quotes will be assembled in an album as part
of the community record.
In addition there will be an exhibition called "Forgive
But Not Forget," organized by Charly Cheung of the
Contemporary Sino-Japanese War Historical Society and
the Chinese American Association for Education. This
exhibit will explore the role of the Chinese in World
War II through a display of photographs, memorabilia,
and artifacts.
Arizona State Museum
Tucson, Ariz.
Description of Activity
Arizona State Museum invites the public to "LOOK
BACK" and commemorate the events of 9/11/01 by experiencing
a special acoustic exhibition. On Sept. 12, 2001,
the day after devastating terrorist attacks, the
American Folklife Center (Washington, D.C.) issued
a call for field workers to document on audiotape
the immediate reactions of Americans in communities
across the country. From these tapes, the Center
for Documentary Studies has produced an acoustic
exhibition of voices that didn't make the evening
news programs. They offer sentiments that address
the events' impact, from perhaps the quieter vantage
point of physical distance but with no less poignancy
and distress. The museum is augmenting this acoustic
presentation with a small but dazzling display of
Plains and Western Apache beadwork with U.S. flag
motifs, dating from 1890-1970.
In memory of those who lost their lives one year ago,
Daniel Preston (Tohono O’odham) will offer an American
Indian blessing to open the exhibit at 12:45 p.m. Following
the blessing, the Manuel Intertribal Dance Group, led
by Cecil Manuel (Akimel O’odham), will sing a flag
song and a victory song, and perform the Hoop, Eagle,
and Women’s Fancy Shawl Dances. Events will take place
on the front lawn of the museum’s north building. After
the performances, visitors are invited to listen to
the audio exhibit in the Native Goods Gallery (inside
the north building). The museum will provide blank
sketchbooks in the exhibit area so that visitors can
write or draw their reactions and reflections about
Sept. 11 one year later. The exhibit will run through
Sept. 18, 2002.
Web address: http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe, Ariz.
Description of Activity
The museum will present “The Aftermath (9/11): Photographs
by Janis Lewis.” A New York City artist, Lewis walked
around the city after Sept. 11, capturing on film
the shrines, faces of the lost, and the reflections
of the living. This exhibition is a memorial to that
tragic day.
As part of the exhibition, visitors can write their
own story or read others' comments on the museum’s
Remembrance Wall. The display also will include interviews
that local poet and writer Catherine Hammond conducted
with local fire fighters about their feelings and
stories about 9/11, their work, and the tragedy’s
anniversary.
The museum also will host an event on Sept. 11 with
representatives from the local fire department. It
will include a moment of silence and presentation
of collaborative art projects by youths from two
local schools and the Salvation Army Shelter. The
children will create links of a chain that represent
the chain of events and reactions that followed the
events of Sept. 11 as well as the connections that
can be formed within a community. Visitors will be
encouraged to create their own chains, which will
be presented to local fire departments.
Arlington Museum of Art
Arlington, Tex.
Description of Activity
Commemoration plans are currently underway at the Arlington
Museum of Art. The museum will be open Sept. 11, 10
a.m. to 9 p.m. Free. The Unity Flag (a Lions club and
A.I.S.D. community project) will be on display outside
of the museum for Sept 11. A flower memorial constructed
by the community will be below the Unity Flag. Citizens
will be invited to place a single flower on the site
with the goal of accumulating 5,000 flowers to commemorate
the victims.
A public ceremony will take place in the park adjacent
to the museum on Sept. 11 from 5:30-6:30 p.m. with
the mayor, Fire Station 1, and a performance by the
community band. A poetry reading celebrating America's
freedoms will be held inside the museum from 6:30-8:30
p.m.
Also, starting Monday, Sept. 9, the community will
be invited to add to the tribute wall at the museum's
entrance, where people can post photos, art, poems,
notes, and/or letters that share their own memories
and thoughts.
The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire
Durham, N.H.
Description of Activity
The Gallery will display a special work of art entitled, "Each
One: The Button Project/A September 11th Memorial." The
piece was created by weaver Sarah Haskell and is
a community-based work of art. White buttons, sent
by people from around the country, form two towers
on Haskell's hand-dyed and woven column of black
linen. Community members assisted in sewing on the
buttons. On Sept. 11 at noon, Haskell will give a
gallery talk about the piece and the letters she
received from those who donated buttons.
The HBO documentary In Memoriam will be shown
in the gallery on Sept. 11, 2002.
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Beaumont, Tex.
Description of Activity
Recently the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET)
installed a Contemplation Gallery, a quiet space
where visitors can look at art, reflect upon its
meaning, and record their thoughts in communal journals.
Visitors offered insightful and amusing thoughts
and sketches in response to AMSET's last two exhibitions: "Rio
de Luz: Photographs of Mexico" and "Double Take:
10 Houston Artists, 10 Themes."
In commemoration of 9/11, the Contemplation Gallery
is now dedicated to the memory of that event. Installed
in the center of the gallery are a sculpture and
a painting of a firefighter at work. Both are preliminary
models for a firefighter memorial by artist Luis
Jimenez. Hanging on the opposite walls are two small
renderings of the World Trade Center before the attacks.
In the days leading up to the first anniversary
of the terrorist attacks, visitors to the Contemplation
Gallery are invited to write on blank cards their
thoughts and remembrances of the attacks. They may
then pin these to the wall for others to read. AMSET
will display the cards through Sept. 11, 2002. On
that day, AMSET will be open for special hours of
operation, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Following this display, AMSET will archive these
memory cards. Also on display will be the 9/11-related
works by children in AMSET's Art After School program.
Web address: http://www.amset.org/
Astor House Museum and Clear Creek History Park
Golden, Colo.
Description of Activity
As a part of the community, the Astor House Museum
and Clear Creek History Park are taking part in a nationwide
remembrance and celebration by offering a free day
at both of our sites on Sept. 11, 2002.
Web address: http://www.astorhousemuseum.org/
The Atlanta History Center
Atlanta, Ga.
Description of Activity
The Atlanta History Center invites visitors to join
us for a day of remembrance on the one-year anniversary
of the terrorist attacks that have forever changed
the lives of so many people. This day includes free
admission to the Atlanta History Center and activities
that will include a local Boy Scout troop raising
the American flag in the center's Veteran Park; a
bench dedication in the Garden for Peace; and the
placement of American flags in Veteran's Park in
remembrance of those whose lives were lost on that
tragic day.
Guests are invited to view visitor comments from
our past exhibition, "New York, September 11, by
Magnum Photographers," which includes thoughts that
former Mayor Rudy Giuliani recorded during his visit
to the center. There also will be an area of remembrance
where guests may share their thoughts, comments,
and reactions to these events that will never be
forgotten. For more information, call (404)814-4000
or visit http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/.
Web address: http://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/
Audubon Nature Institute: Audubon Aquarium of Americas,
Audubon Louisiana Nature Center, and Audubon Zoo
New Orleans, La.
Description of Activity
Audubon Aquarium of Americas, Audubon Louisiana Nature
Center, and Audubon Zoo will offer free admission for
Louisiana residents and have collection boxes at each
site for donations to local fire and police relief
funds.
Augusta Museum of History
Augusta, Ga.
Description of Activity
The Augusta Museum of History will present a special
exhibition, "Augusta Remembers 9/11," to mark the
one-year anniversary of the attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon. This special exhibition
will open on Saturday, Sept. 7, 2002, and will remain
open through Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002.
"Augusta Remembers 9/11" documents our community’s
response to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade
Center and the Pentagon. Included in the exhibition
are a portion of the Memory Wall from Ground Zero
belonging to the Georgia 3 Disaster Medical Assistance
Team; objects from the Augusta Chapter of the American
Red Cross; images of heightened security at Augusta
Regional Airport; and individual expressions penned
by Augusta area residents as part of the "Tribute
to Heroes" project.
Web address: http://www.augustamuseum.org/
Aurora History Museum
Aurora, Colo.
Description of Activity
In remembrance of the Sept. 11 bombing of the World
Trade Center, the Aurora History Museum will offer
an educational program. Throughout the day, we will
show September 11 in Memoriam-Why the Towers Fell,
a documentary featuring interviews with survivors and
rescue personnel. Woven throughout the video are insights
from leading structural engineers who explain exactly
what happened to the Twin Towers on Sept. 11.
Date(s): Sept. 11, 2002
Balboa Park
San Diego , Calif.
Description of Activity
Balboa Park cultural institutions will unite with the
community during the solemn and patriotic observance
of the anniversary of Sept. 11. with the program September
11<—>A Day of Remembrance in Balboa Park. Events
take place prior to, and following, San Diego Mayor
Dick Murphy’s San Diego Patriots Day ceremony in the
park's Spreckels Organ Pavilion. Some institutions
will offer free or reduced admission; many will have
exhibits and activities reflecting the nation’s emotions
and patriotism following Sept. 11.
With the beautiful gardens of Balboa Park as a backdrop
for contemplation and quiet meditation, and the museums
and other cultural attractions providing special
places where families can reaffirm unity and strength,
the goal of A Day of Remembrance is to honor the
freedoms of our nation.
Participating institutions: House of Pacific Relations
International Cottages, Japanese Friendship Garden,
Museum of Photographic Arts, Reuben H. Fleet Science
Center, San Diego Aerospace Museum, San Diego Art
Institute, San Diego Automotive Museum, San Diego
Hall of Champions, San Diego Historical Society,
San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego Museum
of Man, San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego
Zoo and Spanish Village.
For additional details see each institution's listing.
Web address: http://www.balboapark.org/
Baltimore Public Works Museum
Baltimore, Md.
Description of Activity
To commemorate the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001, the
Baltimore Public Works Museum will offer free admission
on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, from 10 a.m. until 4
p.m. The museum will commemorate this anniversary by
celebrating our community and its enduring system of
public works, which strives everyday to protect and
serve it’s citizens. In addition, HBO’s 60-minute film, In
Memoriam: New York City 9/11/01 will be presented
throughout the day in the museum’s theatre.
Contact: (410) 396-5565
The Barnum Museum
Bridgeport, Conn.
Description of Activity
The Barnum Museum's Sept. 11 commemorative event will
celebrate and reaffirm the ideas and freedoms guaranteed
to all Americans by the U. S. Constitution and the
principles on which our nation was founded. We are
inviting the public<—>at no charge<—>to
sign a copy of the U.S. Constitution, following a flag-raising
and lowering ceremony at 11 a.m. Just as original Constitution
signers did in 1787, participants will add their signatures
to parchment scrolls. The scrolls will be archieved
and displayed in the National Constitution Center,
which will open July 4, 2003, on Philadelphia's Independence
Mall. The Barnum Museum, the only venue in Connecticut
participating in the program, has adopted the theme, "Sign
the Constitution in the Constitution State." Signing
opportunities will continue through Veterans Day, Nov.
11.
Contact: (203) 331-1104
Web address: http://www.barnum-museum.org/
Barona Cultural Center and Museum
Lakeside, Calif.
Description of Activity
Our Tribal Museum will celebrate with a community bulletin
board where tribal members and others in the community
may post their thoughts, photos, correspondence, and
other mementos about 9/11. We are also honoring our
Veterans, our active military, our Barona Reservation
Fire Department, and Tribal Enforcement. The HBO documentary In
Memorium: New York City, 9/11/01 will be shown
continuously.
Barona Cultural Center and Museum
Lakeside, Calif.
Description of Activity
We are a tribal museum and will highlight our Native
American Veterans. There are five Purple Heart recipients
from this reservation, the Barona Band of Mission Indians.
Beaumont Association of Museums
Beaumont, Tex.
Description of Activity
On Sept. 11, 2002, museums in Beaumont will be open
to the public free of charge. Many will have extended
hours in the evening so working individuals and families
will be able to gather together. All will provide some
sort of remembrance activity or project through which
visitors may express their feelings about the freedoms
we enjoy as Americans.
Bell County Museum
Belton, Tex.
Description of Activity
We will show the HBO documentary In Memoriam: New
York City 9/11/01 and will have a folder to collect
visitors' thoughts. The museum will also stay open
late.
Bell Museum of Natural History
Minneapolis, Minn.
Description of Activity
In observance of the first anniversary of the Sept.
11 attacks, the Bell Museum of Natural History will
show the HBO documentary In Memoriam: New York City,
9/11/01 on Sept. 11, 2002. The film will be shown
hourly from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Bell Museum's lobby
theater. Admission is free.
Bellevue Art Museum
Bellevue, Wash.
Description of Activity
Bellevue Art Museum and its partners<—>the
City of Bellevue Parks and Community Services, Bellevue
Community College, Bellevue Downtown Association,
Bellevue Square, The Bradford Center, Crossroads
Shopping Center, Exchange Theater, and the Eastside
Asian Pacific Islanders<—>have collaborated
to offer the East side community a series of events
to remember and commemorate the victims of the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks on the United States. These events
build on programs held in the museum last fall and
winter that provided opportunities to come together
to mourn, learn, and heal through art and conversation.
In addition, area museums and cultural groups have
organized Puget
Sound Museums Remember. Check that listing for
a program overview. On Wednesday, Sept. 11, Bellevue
Art Museum, along with these organizations, will
extend its hours to 8 p.m. and offer free admission
for the day.
Some of the events being planned include: a theatrical
presentation of Anne Nelson’s play “The Guys” in
partnership with Exchange Theater, commissioned by
the Flea Theater in New York in response to the events
of Sept. 11; Eleventh Dialog: A Community Comes Together
Through Art and Conversation beginning with a short
video by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council artist-in-residence
Monika Bravo shot from the World Trade Center on
9/10/01 and video shot by former Bellevue resident
Doug Moy in New York on Sept. 11 will be shown followed
by a moderated panel and audience conversation revolving
around the world political situation as well as a
public remembrance to be held in the Bellevue Downtown
Park. For more information about the events and exhibitions
visit the museum’s Web site: http://www.bellevueart.org/.
Web address: http://www.bellevueart.org/
The Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, Mass.
Description of Activity
To observe Sept. 11, the Berkshire Museum will be open
to the public free of charge. We will offer two hands-on
workshops for children (60 percent of our audience
is families with children) with the theme of "What
America Means to Me" under the overall theme "Honoring
America's Freedoms." We have a large audience of mothers
with preschool age children. For this constituency,
we will offer a flag making workshop at 11 a.m. For
older children who will be in school, we will offer
two activities at 4 p.m. One is based on Tibetan Buddhist
prayer flags and the other is a collective art project,
a large-scale collage. Both the collage and the prayer
flags will be displayed at the museum.
Web address: http://www.berkshiremuseum.org/
The Billings Farm & Museum
Woodstock, Vt.
Description of Activity
The Billings Farm & Museum will join with museums,
community groups, and individuals everywhere for a
Day of Remembrance. We invite our neighbors from near
and far to join us in remembering those who gave of
themselves in service to humanity and democracy. The
Farm & Museum will offer free admission on Sept.
11, 2002, to provide a place for reflection and remembrance
on the one-year anniversary of the national tragedy.
A Fireman's Prayer Flag will be displayed in the Billings
Farm & Museum Visitor Center. The silk Prayer Flag
quilt was presented to Paul Whitney, a local fire chief
of 57 years, who has loaned his flag to the Billings
Farm & Museum for display. Hands-on programs designed
especially for pre-school children will be offered
around the farm from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Activities
will emphasize such themes as "the importance of every
person" and "helping one another," and will include
simple chores, caring for animals, and helping in the
garden.
Contact: Darlyne Franzen dfranzen@valley.net,
(802) 457-2355
Date(s): Sept. 11, 2002, 10 a.m.-5
p.m.
Web address: http://www.billingsfarm.org/
Bok Tower Garden
Lake Wales, Fla.
Description of Activity
On Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, Historic Bok Sanctuary
will offer complimentary admission all day for anyone
seeking a place of refuge, peace, and tranquility to
reflect upon the tragic events of Sept.11, 2001. A
special tribute that begins at 4 p.m. will feature
a tolling of the bells, a time of silence, and a special
carillon recital.
Web address: http://www.boktowergardens.org/
Boonshoft Museum of Discovery
Dayton, Ohio
Description of Activity
In memory of those who served so selfelessly on Sept.
11, 2001, and in the days following the tragedy, and
as a way to say thank-you to those in our community
who stand ready to serve every day, The Boonshoft Museum
of Discovery will host an open house for all Dayton-area
active-duty police, firefighters, and EMT/EMS workers
and their families. Hometown heroes and their families
will have exclusive use of the museum. Admission is
free and we will offer a full array of activities,
including planetarium programs, laser shows, animal
talks, and science demonstrations. Museum personnel
are volunteering their time to make it all possible.
Contact: (937) 275-7431
Web address: http://www.boonshoftmuseum.org/
Botanica, The Wichita Gardens
Wichita, Kans.
Description of Activity
See Wichita
Museums and Public Library listing for a program
overview.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, N.Y.
Description of Activity
The Bronx Museum, with its innovative programs and
exhibitions, has long been a part of the city’s cultural
and social discourse, and as part of the nationally
organized tribute Celebrate America's Freedoms: A Day
of Remembrance, the museum will draw upon the unique
resources of New York City and go beyond a day of mourning. "Post-9/11
Bronx, NYC" will feature a screening of the Tribeca
Film Festival documentary selection Hip Hop Hope (2002,
62 min.), and spoken word and hip hop performances
by the film’s principals: Caridad “La Bruja” De La
Luz, Tanya "Flow" Fields, Baruch “Baba” Israel, Jacquelyn "Dutchess" McClain,
Alexander "Zander" Scott, Vernon “Dyverse” Wooten,
and DJ DP One spinning throughout the evening. The
evening will close with a community open-mic slam.
This event is free and open to the public.
Date(s): Sept. 11, 7-11 p.m.
Web address: http://www.bxma.org/
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Description of Activity
Free Garden Days
September 10-14, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The garden will be open and free to the public Tuesday
through Saturday to commemorate the anniversary of
Sept. 11. We invite everyone to use the Brooklyn
Botanic Garden as a place for contemplation and refreshment. "Reflection
stations" will be located at The Liberty Oaks, the
garden's living memorial to the heroes and victims
of 9/11; there, visitors are invited to record their
thoughts.
Harvest Fair
Saturday, Sept. 14, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
One of the most rewarding events at BBG will be
free to all families this year. Harvest Fair celebrates
the bounty of our Children's Garden and the accomplishments
of our youngest gardeners with a full day of games,
entertainment, and a fresh produce sale. This year's
fair includes music, square dancing, activities for
both kids and adults. City and community gardeners
will compete in a produce contest co-sponsored with
NYC Parks and Recreation, GreenThumb, and Brooklyn
GreenBridge. For information on the contest and a
copy of the entry rules, contact Brooklyn GreenBridge,
(718) 623-7251.
Web address: http://www.bbg.org/
Brooklyn Children's Museum
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Description of Activity
Not provided
Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave
Golden, Colo.
Description of Activity
The Buffalo Bill Museum & Grave has recently contributed
a temporary exhibit commenting on the renewed attention
to heroism and villainy in our world since the tragic
incidents of Sept. 11. "Heroes and Villains" runs through
the end of October, 2002. You can read about the exhibit
on the museum's Web site: http://www.buffalobill.org/.
The museum also will honor all firefighters and safety
officers by offering free admission to them and their
families during the week of Sept. 8-14.
Web address: http://www.buffalobill.org/
Buffalo Museum of Science
Buffalo, N.Y.
Description of Activity
The Buffalo Museum of Science is supporting this initiative
by inviting the public to create and build models in
its "K’NEX Tech" exhibit of what they would like see
built on the World Trade Center site. "K’NEX Tech" features
the award-winning, color-coded construction toys. The
museum will kick off the project with a Family Day
Sunday, Aug. 4, Noon – 5 p.m. Adults receive half price
admission, $3. The day will be stocked with activities,
demos, and family fun.
Models will be added to a growing collection showcased
in a special area within the "K’NEX Tech" exhibit.
The memorial construction project will run through
Sunday, Sept. 8. On Wednesday, Sept. 11 the museum
will sponsor a free admission day for the public to
view the project and reflect on the tragic attacks.
The displays will remain on exhibit through Sept. 15.
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture
Seattle, Wash.
Description of Activity
Participating in Puget
Sound Museums Remember. Check that listing for
a program overview.
C. M. Russell Museum
Great Falls, Mont.
Description of Activity
The C. M. Russell Museum will offer free admission,
special public tours at 9:15 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., and
a gallery talk at 12:15 p.m. on a painting in the museum's
permanent collection.
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, Calif.
Description of Activity
The California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park
will offer visitors free admission on Sept. 11, 2002.
Web address: http://www.calacademy.org/
Cape Fear Museum
Wilmington, N.C.
Description of Activity
Cape Fear Museum activities on Sept. 11, 2002, will
complement those scheduled by New Hanover County
and the city of Wilmington. The museum will be free
of charge throughout the day. On display is "What
So Proudly We Hailed: Conserving Historic Flags,” an
exhibit displaying many of the 100 historic flags
in the museum's collection, including a recent acquisition:
the prototype of the 9/11 Remembrance flag designed
by Gwendolyn Wells Loiacono of Wilmington and Cono
Flags. Visitors also can experience Tell Us Your
Story, an interactive CD-ROM of interviews from
Ground Zero that captures witnesses' reactions to
the event. Photographic portraits with accompanying
audio will be projected in the museum's auditorium.
Listen to other people's stories and share your thoughts
and feelings about 9/11/01. The pictures and words
will be the basis of an archive of Wilmington perspectives
on 9/11 experiences.
That evening, at Legion Stadium, WAAV radio will
host the "Forum on America's Freedoms," which is
expected to be a spirited discussion of America's
freedoms. The live broadcast will precede the city/county
remembrance ceremony. During the live broadcast,
members of the audience will share their memories
and thoughts about the 9/11 events, and radio listeners
may phone in to participate. The program is free.
Capital Children's Museum
Washington, D.C.
Description of Activity
We will have free admission on Sept. 11 and will offer
a host of hands-on activities and programs for visiting
children and families that day and over the weekend
of Sept. 14-15.
Carlyle House Historic Park
Alexandria, Va.
Description of Activity
Carlyle House Historic Park in Alexandria, Va.,
will be open free on Sept. 11. We will offer special
focus tours that celebrate good citizenship and public
service through the example of 18th-century merchant
John Carlyle. Tours will emphasize Carlyle's role
as a founder of the town of Alexandria, where he
served as a member of the board of trustees, as a
justice of the peace, as a colonel in the militia,
and as a plank owner of the Sun Fire Company. A traditional
colonial gentleman, Carlyle took his duties as a
volunteer public servant very seriously.
Guided tours will be given on the hour and half
hour from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 11.
Contact: (703) 549-2997
Carnegie Center for Art and History
New Albany, Ind.
Description of Activity
A number of organizations in New Albany joined together
to plan a “Community Day of Remembrance,” to honor
and recognize the thousands of Americans who lost
their lives on that day of tragedy. The public is
invited to attend the commemoration program on Saturday,
Sept. 7, from 10 to 11 a.m. at the New Albany High
School.
The program will begin with the Fire and Police
Departments Color Guard and an invocation by Rev.
Tom McGilliard, pastor of DePauw Memorial United
Methodist Church. Remarks will be given by New Albany
Mayor Regina Overton; U.S. Representative Baron Hill;
Gary Grigg, survivor of the attack on the South Tower
of the World Trade Center; and New Albany Police
Officer Eric Higdon who served as a volunteer relief
officer for the New York Police Department. There
will be performances by the Howard Chapel Missionary
Baptist Church Choir, soloist Pam Kiger, and the
Christ Community Church of the Nazarene Choir. The
fireman and policeman prayers will be offered by
Matt Boyer and Officer Higdon and the commemoration
will conclude with a benediction by Rev. William
Hodge, Pastor of Howard Chapel Missionary Baptist
Church. After the program, the Salvation Army invites
the public to join them for refreshments, served
from the mobile canteen taken to relief sites.
The Carnegie Center for Art and History also invites
the public to share personal thoughts and stories
about the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. The stories
will be collected throughout the fall and will be
archived within the center’s permanent collection.
On Wednesday, Sept. 11, the Carnegie Center will
offer a continuous showing of the HBO documentary, In
Memoriam: New York City, 9/11/01.
The Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, N.C.
Description of Activity
The Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) has produced
an acoustic exhibition reflecting the thoughts and
feelings of Americans in disparate communities across
the country in the immediate aftermath of the unbelievable
events of Sept. 11, 2001. These are voices that didn’t
make the evening news programs. These are sentiments
that address the events’ impact, from the perhaps quieter
vantage point afforded by physical distance but with
no less poignancy and echoes of distress. A short online
demo of the Looking Back CD is available for
listening. Check the Web at http://cds.aas.duke.edu/exhibits/lookingback.html.
CDS will open its sound gallery to the public Sept.
11-14, 2002, and hope that museums across the country
will observe similar dates in order to increase the
collective impact of America's reflection on what happened
and how we've dealt with the repercussions. In conjunction
with this project, a one-hour documentary radio program
drawing on recordings gathered after the bombing of
Pearl Harbor and post-Sept. 11 recordings will be distributed
to public radio stations across the country. The documentary
radio program is produced by Elana Hadler at the Center
for Documentary Studies and John Biewen of American
RadioWorks, the national documentary project of Minnesota
Public Radio and NPR News.
Date(s): Sound gallery open to the
public Sept. 11-14
Center on Contemporary Art
Seattle, Wash.
Description of Activity
Participating in Puget
Sound Museums Remember. Check that listing for
a program overview.
Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
Racine, Wis.
Description of Activity
Our museum, the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
in Racine, Wis., is currently planning a community
project in honor of the Americans who lost their lives
on Sept. 11, 2001. We would like to create a memory
book of individual entries from people in the community,
which may take the form of letters, stories, poetry,
drawings, photographs, etc. We would then like to send
our book to a museum, school, or organization in New
York.
The Charlotte Museum of History and Hezekiah Alexander
Homesite
Charlotte, N.C.
Description of Activity
Museum guests will be invited to follow the American
Freedom Trail, a self-guided tour of Museum property
areas that focus on the passion for freedom, the Museum's
major theme. The American Freedom Bell, the world's
largest striking bell hung at eye level, will ring
every hour to provide a moment of contemplation about
ways in which our understanding of freedom has changed
since Sept. 11, 2001. The Museum's Hands-on-History
Room will offer self-directed activities for children.
Patriotic themed music videos will play in the Visitors'
Lounge. Finally, the Museum will invite all visitors
to return to the Museum between Sept. 26 - Oct. 6 when
we will host the Declaration of Independence Road Trip,
presenting the broadside of the Declaration of Independence
touring America in 2002-2003.
Date(s): Day of Remembrance, Sept.
11, 2002; Declaration of Independence Road Trip, Sept.
26-Oct. 6, 2002
Web address: http://www.charlottemuseum.org/
Chemung County Historical Society/Chemung Valley
History Museum
Elmira, N.Y.
Description of Activity
The Chemung County Historical Society/Chemung Valley
History Museum is collecting local stories and memories
of from Sept. 11, 2001, and the following months. The
story archive will serve as a memorial to all those
touched both personally and nationally that day, and
may serve as an addition to an exhibit on patriotism
slated to open at the Museum in 2004.
Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum
Arkansas City, Kans.
Description of Activity
The Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum is planning an
open house on Sept. 11, 2002. We have invited local
groups to exhibit their programs and talk with people
from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion,
Red Cross, police, and the local newspaper. The museum
will also put up a temporary exhibit of 9/11 photos,
speeches, and e-mails. Our community also has a 9/11
memorial and we will display photos of it.
Web address: http://www.arkcity.org/
Chester County Historical Society
West Chester, Pa.
Description of Activity
Public Programs:
Sept.11, 1777 & 2001. CCHS will commemorate
the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks by
addressing the significance of that date, Sept. 11,
in our nation's and county's past and the implications
for the future. Thomas McGuire, author of The
Battle of Paoli, will address the former subject
by speaking about the Battle of the Brandywine, which
occurred on Sept. 11, 1777. Stephen Gale of the University
of Pennsylvania will address last year's terrorist
attacks and the impact Sept. 11, 2001 has on us today.
Specifically, Gale will speak to the Bush administration's
policy on terrorism, the implications of this policy
on civil liberties, and steps the government and
the American people need to take in order to limit
the chances of another terrorist attack. Program
begins at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the
Chester County Historical Society, 225 North High
Street, West Chester, PA 19380-2691. For more information,
call (610) 692-4800.
Remembering September 11th The Chester County Historical
Society invites the community to visit our museum galleries
during the month of September to view a special exhibit
commemorating the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001.
All visitors will be given the opportunity to share
their reflections in a special comment book that will
become part of the permanent collections of the Chester
County Historical Society.
Contact: (610) 692-4800
The Chicago Historical Society
Chicago, Ill.
Description of Activity
The Chicago Historical Society will present the exhibition, “New
York September 11 by Magnum Photographers,” September
6, 2002 – January 20, 2002 and a series of programs
described below. On Sept. 5, 2002, “A Message of Freedom”,
co-sponsored by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations,
will examine the state of freedom, democracy and opportunity
in the United States and the subsequent anger and suspicion
that seems to exist in other regions towards the United
States. On Sept. 11, 2002 a day of reflection on the
tragedy of September 11th, “A Day of Remembrance” will
feature music, an Ofrenda sponsored by the Resurrection
Catholic Academy, and a “Wall of Remembrance” allowing
visitors to contribute their reflections on the anniversary
of the tragedy. Also, taking clues from the past, civic
leaders and historians, “Memorializing the Past” will
examine the complex and daunting task of creating monuments,
recording history and preserving memory when tragedy
strikes. September 2002, “Religious Leaders’ Reflections” -
Leaders from a variety of spiritual communities will
lead the public in a discussion of the varied approaches
to strife, conflict and perseverance in times of tragedy.
October 2002, “Looking at the Built Environment” -
The fields of architecture, urban planning and engineering
have been irreparably changed after the events of September
11. Architects and historians will evaluate the effect
of the tragedy on the future of the urban landscape.
October 2002, “Magnum’s View” - Magnum photographers,
along with local journalists, will share their thoughts
about the power of images, how they shape our impressions
of the past and how photojournalism affects our understanding
of history.
Contact: info@chicagohistory.org,
(312) 642-4600
Community Partners: Chicago Council
on Foreign Relations, Resurrection Catholic Academy,
The Center for Public Intellectuals, University of
Illinois-Chicago’s Great Cities Institute, The Chicago
Architecture Foundation
Web address: http://www.chicagohistory.org/
The Children's Museum
Boston, Mass.
Description of Activity
The Children's Museum, Boston will be celebrating the
Freedom to Play as part of the Day of Remembrance on
Sept. 11, 2002. We will be open free of charge and
will extend our hours that day until 9:00 p.m., so
families in Greater Boston have a playful, positive
family place where they can spend time together.
Web address: http://www.bostonkids.org/
The Children's Museum
Seattle, Wash.
Description of Activity
Participating in Puget
Sound Museums Remember. Check that listing for
a program overview.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, Ind.
Description of Activity
Sept. 11, 2002, will be a day of family learning and
remembrance at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
At this time, plans for the day include transforming
Festival Park, located in front of the museum, into
Freedom Park with patriotic displays that celebrate
freedom. Children will be encouraged to add their own "freedom" art
to chalk murals designed by students from local universities.
The day is sponsored by Conseco Capital Management.
Museum members, visitors, and schools will have
the opportunity to make donations toward the purchase
of library-quality books that will be shipped to
the five school libraries in the mile-square area
around Ground Zero. Visitors will also have an opportunity
to join museum staff in their "Adopt a Platoon" campaign.
A U.S. Navy platoon will receive letters, children's
artwork, care packages and videotaped sentiments
from museum visitors and staff for a six-month time
period. It is a special way to thank our armed forces
for their dedication and protection of our freedoms.
Also, the museum will display patriotic artifacts from
its collection and visitors will witness first-person
interpretations from historical moments in our country's
history. The day will end with a patriotic parade lead
by the museum's mascot, Rex the Dinosaur, and a pep
band from a local university. Firemen aboard a fire
engine will hand out American flags for visitors to
wave during the closing parade.
Web address: http://www.childrensmuseum.org/
Chinese Historical Society of America
San Francisco, Calif.
Description of Activity
"From Clay Street to Canal Street: Remembering New
York Chinatown in the Wake of Sept. 11"
On Sept. 11, 2002, the Chinese Historical Society
of America Museum and Learning Center (CHSA) in San
Francisco will join the Museum of Chinese in the
Americas (MoCA) in New York, in remembering the lives
of Chinese Americans lost in the tragedy of Sept.
11, 2001, and the impact on the New York Chinatown
community. While MoCA in New York (Web site: http://www.moca-nyc.org/)
will be hosting the "Chinatown 9/11 Collection Project," exhibiting
materials, photographs, and drawings of Chinatown
and the experience of Chinese New Yorkers during
and after the attacks of Sept. 11, CHSA will also
hold its own commemorative event.
The Chinese Historical Society of America will open
its museum free to the public on Sept. 11, with extended
viewing hours from 10 a.m. through 7 p.m. The CHSA
Learning Center will also be open, with an all-day
memorial to New York Chinatown on display. A special
scroll will be laid out where we will invite visitors
to reflect, write comments, and share their feelings
about Sept. 11. CHSA will deliver the scroll to the
Museum of Chinese in the Americas (MoCA) in New York
as a token of partnership, sympathy, and support.
This event is part of the City and County of San
Francisco's "September 11th Tribute."
Date(s): September 11, 2002; 10 am
- 7pm
Web address: http://www.chsa.org/
Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, Va.
Description of Activity
The Chrysler Museum of Art is honored to host the premiere
of a traveling exhibition of contemporary glass, "William
Morris: Two Installations." One of the two featured
works, Cinerary Urns, comprises 70 richly colored
and textured urns with beautifully crafted fiber ties.
The urns are arranged in niches within a freestanding
structure -- 11 feet high and 20 feet square -- suggesting
a columbarium or tomb. It is a requiem in glass to
the victims of Sept. 11.
We invite you to experience "William Morris: Two Installations" and Cinerary
Urns and to take part in one of our programs commemorating
the anniversary of this tragedy. Admission on Sept.
11 is by voluntary contribution, and the museum will
remain open until 9 p.m. "William Morris: Two Installations" will
be on view through January 2003.
Contact: John Welch (757) 333-6356
Date(s): Exhibit on view through Jan.
5, 2003; Commemorative events are scheduled for Wednesday,
Sept. 11.
Web address: http://www.chrysler.org/
Cimarron Heritage Center Museum
Boise City, Oklahoma
Description of Activity
The Cimarron Heritage Center Museum with the Boise
City High School Student Council and Leadership Class
plans to meet in the school auditorium at 10:00 a.m.
to remember the anniversary of 9/11. The Boy Scouts
and Girl Scouts will present a flag ceremony, which
will be followed by patriotic music and readings.
At the ceremony, the students will dedicate an Oklahoma
redbud tree, which will be planted on the grounds
of the museum on Living History Day, Sept. 27. The
grade school classes are asked to bring banners for
display at the museum. We also will have space available
in the foyer for junior high and high school students
to post their thoughts, feelings, and drawings.
The program will be available to the public and
the items will be on display at the museum, which
is free to the public.
Contact: Phyllis Randolph museum@ptsi.net,
(580) 544-3479
Cincinnati Fire Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio
Description of Activity
The Cincinnati Fire Museum will commemorate Sept. 11
by offering free admission from Tuesday, Sept. 10 through
Sunday, Sept. 15, 2002. A new temporary exhibit will
honor local heroes from area fire departments.
Contact: (513) 621-5553
Cincinnati Fire Museum
Cincinnati, Ohio
Description of Activity
The Cincinnati Fire Museum, is offering free admission,
Tuesday, Sept. 10 through Sunday, Sept. 15, to commemorate
the national tragedy of Sept. 11, 2001.
Visitors are invited to stop by and tour our facilities
to learn firsthand about Cincinnati’s proud fire
fighting heritage and to sign our Book of Remembrance,
in which visitors' names and remarks show support
for those who demonstrated remarkable bravery on
Sept. 11th last year. At the close of the week, the
book(s) will be sent to the New York City Fire Museum
as part of our observance of this national tragedy.
Also, the HBO documentary, In Memoriam: New York
City, 9-11-01, will be shown throughout the week.
Cincinnati Museum Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
Description of Activity
Cincinnati Museum Center, a symbol of stability in
our city’s empowerment zone, hopes to bring our community
together for a Day of Remembrance that will help heal
our city’s crisis and honor the nation’s fallen by
paying tribute to our local firefighters, police, armed
forces, Red Cross, and canine rescue units. Silence,
music, and sirens will frame the remembrance. Moments
of silence that morning will mark the times of day
when the Twin Towers collapsed; then a color guard
will present the colors and one of our staff will sing
the national anthem. At noon there will be a short
organ concert on the theater organ in the museum’s
rotunda. Following a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance
led by children from our neighborhood partner school,
firefighters, police, armed forces, and Red Cross officials
will be honored at the podium. As the ceremony closes,
a parade of fire trucks lining the museum’s front circle
will sound their sirens, symbolically uniting us in
sound and spirit.
City of Bowie Museums
Bowie, Md.
Description of Activity
A special exhibition opens on Wednesday, Sept. 11,
2002, at the Belair Mansion, which will be open to
the public from 1:00 to 6:00 p.m. that day. The City
of Bowie Museums has assembled a photographic display
from the Bowie Blade-News' archives of how
this community reacted and responded to the crisis
last fall.
Our exhibit brings together photographs that ran
in the Bowie Blade-News, as well as ones that
were submitted to the paper but did not run for lack
of space. They portray a community that reeled from
the shock, but then defiantly and proudly draped
flags on houses, cars, bicycles, and highway overpasses.
From the solemn candlelight vigil at Allen Pond Park
to the Boy Scouts standing with flags atop the Bowie
Hill on Collington R&D Protocol, the citizens
of Bowie showed their spirit, their patriotism, and
their defiance of terror.
The exhibit will remain up through the autumn and
is free.
College Park Aviation Museum
College Park, Md.
Description of Activity
The museum was profoundly affected by the attacks of
Sept. 11. Our mission is to interpret the history of
the College Park Airport, which was closed by the FAA
for several months. Our visitation has suffered. The
museum is looking forward to opening our doors for
free on Sept. 11, 2002.
Collier County Museums
Naples, Everglades City and Immokalee, Fla.
Description of Activity
The Collier County Government Museums will commemorate
the anniversary of the national tragedies of Sept.
11, 2001, by celebrating America’s freedoms. Beginning
Sept. 9 through Sept. 13, the public is invited to
visit the Collier County Museums in Naples, Everglades
City, and Immokalee to record what being an American
means to them on specially designed cards. The cards
will be collected by museum staff and sent to the one
of the following groups chosen by the visitor: American
troops in Afghanistan; local police and fire departments;
or American Red Cross workers and the New York City
police and firefighters. The museum plans to produce
an article based on the public comments it receives.
The Collier County Museum in Naples, located at the
government center, will extend its normal hours of
operation (Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.);
the Naples location only will be open 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.,
Sept. 11 to 13. Admission to all county museums is
free. For information and hours of operation for the
Museum of the Everglades and the Immokalee Pioneer
Museum, call (239) 774-8476.
Collingsworth County Museum
Wellington, Tex.
Description of Activity
The Collingsworth County Museum will sponsor A Day
of Remembrance on Sept. 11, 2002, at 9 a.m. on the
courthouse lawn in Wellington, Tex. Students from local
schools as well as the VFW will participate. In addition
to remembering the victims of last year's attacks and
their families, our local firemen, law enforcement,
EMS, and active military will be recognized with a
presentation by the high school drama class. Students
have been asked to submit creative writing and artwork
to be displayed at the museum throughout the month
of September.
Colorado Historical Society
Denver, Colo.
Description of Activity
In remembrance of the one-year anniversary of the
nation's tragedy, on Sept. 11, 2002, the Colorado
Historical Society's museums will be open for free
and will provide a place for the public to come and
reflect on this date. The Colorado History Museum,
located in Denver, will have a small display in the
lobby with photos that illustrate responses from
across the state to the events of 9/11. In addition,
paper, pens and additional materials will be provided
for Colorado History Museum visitors who would like
to submit their reflections of the day for inclusion
in a large memory book. Each of the regional museums
throughout the state also will provide materials
for the memory book, which will then be bound and
will remain in the society's collection. For more
information on the Colorado Historical Society or
the Day of Remembrance, visit www.coloradohistory.org
or call 303-866-3682.
Regional museum participants include Byers-Evans
House Museum, Colorado History Museum, El Pueblo
Museum, Fort Garland, Fort Vasquez, Georgetown Loop
Railroad Park and Morrison Interpretive Center, Trinidad
History Museum, and Ute Indian Museum.
Contact: (303) 866-3682
Web address: http://www.coloradohistory.org/
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorado Springs, Colo.
Description of Activity
On Sept. 11, 2002, the Fine Arts Center will be free
and open to the public all day. Galleries will be empty
at that time as they are being reinstalled so there
will be an overall solemn feeling to the museum. The
outdoor courtyard sculpture garden will remain untouched.
We are going to have two large gessoed screens placed
in one of the galleries that will have a variety of
clippings about the attacks glued to them. We are inviting
the general public, schools, and all visitors to come
make additions to the screens throughout the day, adding
names, poems, and remembrances of any sort. We will
provide colored markers and pencils with which to write
and draw. When the screens are completed they will
be on display somewhere in Colorado Springs, perhaps
even being sent to NYC, if not the actual screens,
at least photographs documenting them. Mayor Mary Lou
Makepeace will make concluding remarks at 6 p.m. in
the theatre lounge, which overlooks the park and mountains.
Concord Museum
Concord, Mass.
Description of Activity
The Concord Museum will mark the year anniversary of
9/11 by offering free admission and extended hours
on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2002, and welcomes the public
to visit the museum, a fitting place for reflection
on this day of remembrance. In our role as a steward
of historic Concord's stories, the museum joins with
other museums around the country on this solemn day
in celebration of the freedoms that sustain America’s
strength<—>our freedom to assemble, freedom to
create, freedom to worship, freedom to inquire, freedom
to express ideas, and freedom from fear. Visitors from
near and far may tour the museum's history galleries
during special extended hours, from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m.,
free of charge.
Contact: Judy Stern, Director of Education jstern@concordmuseum.org,
(978) 369-9763
Date(s): Extended hours and free admission
to the museum on Sept. 11, 2002, 9:00 a.m. to 8:00
p.m.
Web address: http://www.concordmuseum.org/
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, La.
Description of Activity
The Contemporary Arts Center is currently featuring "Missing<—>Last
Seen at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001,” an
exhibit that features the flyers that concerned family
and friends posted around the site of the attack in
an effort to locate their loved ones. Two hundred of
these flyers were mounted and framed to create the “Missing” exhibit,
which is touring nationally and is in New Orleans for
the anniversary of Sept. 11. The exhibit is free and
open to the public for its entire stay at the Contemporary
Art Center, which runs Aug. 30–Sept. 14, 2002. Exhibit
hours are 11 a.m.–5 p.m. and 9 a.m.–6 p.m. on Sept.
11.
Corita Art Center
Los Angeles, Calif.
Description of Activity
The Corita Art Center will mark 9/11 with a special
exhibit during the month of September that celebrates
freedom of speech and our country's commitment to justice.
We will exhibit serigraphs by Corita Kent that laud
justice, openly criticize the war in Vietnam, and
extol the virutes and responsibilities of freedom.
These will be punctuated by stylized flags from her Bicentennial series
and end with a poster she designed for the Public
Justice Foundation using the words of Anthony Amsterdam: "We
honor our own freedom most when we use a part of
it to labor for the freedom of others."
We are open weekdays and the second Sunday of each
month (in Sept. it is 9/8).
Corning Museum of Glass
Corning, N.Y.
Description of Activity
The Corning Museum of Glass will begin the day with
an opportunity for staff to gather and reflect in the
auditorium. Admission to the museum will be free to
the public throughout the day, and guests will be offered
the opportunity to "press a star." Last fall, the museum
introduced 10,000 Stars to the community. Museum guests
can press a glass suncatcher bearing a star motif and
offer comments in a leather-bound journal. The stars
are hung in the museum's lobby as a symbol of unity
and patriotism and as a tribute to the difference individuals
can make when we work together. The museum will host
a community event sponsored by the Mayor of Corning
in the auditorium from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.
Contact: Steve Gibbs (607) 974-8504
Date(s): Sept. 11, 2002
Web address: http://www.cmog.org/
Courthouse Museum
Charlotte, Mich.
Description of Activity
On Sept. 11, 2002, Courthouse Square Association
in cooperation with the city of Charlotte, Charlotte
Fire Department, Charlotte Police Department, and
Veterans of Foreign War Post 2406, will host "America's
Freedoms: A Day of Remembrance." The local community
is invited to join Courthouse Square Association
in this day of remembrance and a celebration of freedom.
During the day, Courthouse Square's 1885 Eaton County
Courthouse Museum will host activities for visitors
of all ages, from hands-on children's crafts to our "Scroll
of Remembrance" project. Visitors will be encouraged
to share their thoughts on the events of last Sept.
11, but also on remembering those who have fought
to preserve Americans' freedoms, and the men and
women who continue to defend those freedoms on a
daily basis. Patriotic music will help to set the
mood in our Military Exhibit. A lunch hour presentation
on the grounds of the Courthouse Square is planned
with representatives from the city, fire and police
departments, and VFW Post 2406. The community is
invited to place flowers at the military memorials
on the Courthouse Square grounds. Admission to the
museum is free. Though the museum will not be open
that evening, if members of the community feel the
need to be with others or are looking for a place
to reflect, they may meet on the grounds of the Courthouse
Square.
Contact: Mindie M. Dings, Executive
Director preserve@ia4u.net, (517)
543-6999
Community Partners: City of Charlotte,
Charlotte Fire Department, Charlotte Police Department
and Veterans of Forgien Wars Post 2406
Web address: http://www.visitcourthousesquare.org/
Cowlitz County Historical Museum
Kelso, Wash.
Description of Activity
Following our 101st Airborne Symposium held in Oct.
2001, and in response to Sept. 11, 2001, the Cowlitz
County Historical Museum reached out to the community
with a special exhibit entitled, "Those Who Have Served:
Profiles of Men and Women in Uniform." The exhibit
features a series of interpretive panels that reflect
the personal contributions made by local men and women
during their service in times of conflict from WWI
through Bosnia. Also included are personal collection
items, military artifacts, uniforms, and memory books.
The exhibit runs through mid-October when the museum
will close for expansion. Museum hours are Tuesday-Saturday,
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